Literary notes about Converge (AI summary)
The term "converge" is employed in literature with remarkable versatility, often serving both literal and figurative purposes. In technical contexts, it describes physical phenomena—such as architectural features whose sides meet or light rays that are refracted toward a single point ([1], [2], [3], [4])—while also functioning metaphorically in more abstract discussions. Writers use "converge" to express the idea that separate forces, paths, or ideas ultimately unite, whether it’s the blending of individual strengths to form a powerful oratory ([5]), the unification of diverse notions of truth ([6]), or even the gathering of disparate elements like roads or armies onto a single focal point ([7], [8], [9], [10]). This layered use enriches the language, allowing authors to suggest the merging of divergent elements into a harmonious or decisive whole, whether in descriptions of natural landscapes or in explorations of human thought and emotion ([11], [12]).
- In Binghamton fireplaces the side walls are on an angle and converge toward the back of the fireplace, as in Fig. 274.
— from Shelters, Shacks and Shanties by Daniel Carter Beard - The Point from which Rays diverge or to which they converge may be called their Focus .
— from Opticks : by Isaac Newton - 2, then their focus falls beyond the retina: or if the rays are made to converge by the lens QS before they come at the eye, as in Fig.
— from An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision by George Berkeley - The more convex a lens is, the shorter the distance from the refracting medium, where the different refracted rays converge to a focus.
— from A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter - All the forces of the orator's life converge in his oratory.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - All our notions of truth are thus rendered homogeneous, and begin at once to converge towards a central principle.
— from A General View of PositivismOr, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life by Auguste Comte - For to this point all things over the world converge by a vast web of wire, railroad, coach road, and steamer track.
— from The Slave of the Lamp by Henry Seton Merriman - The roads from Pittsburg and Hamburg to Corinth converge some eight miles out.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - The city is a point to which roads, railways, and steamship lines converge, and from which they radiate in every direction.
— from Society: Its Origin and Development by Henry K. (Henry Kalloch) Rowe - We marched via Vienna, Germantown, and Centreville, where all the army, composed of five divisions, seemed to converge.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman - In sooth, me on the valley’s brink I found Of the dolorous abyss, where infinite Despairing cries converge with thundering sound.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri - It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: never pursue literature as a trade.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
